Isabella Products

Ten individuals are honored per year who are truly pioneering a new direction in M2M technology, including Isabella Products’ CEO for creating Vizit, the world’s first two-way photo sharing frame.

Concord, MA, June 15, 2010 —Consumer electronics company, Isabella Products’ CEO and Founder, Matthew I. Growney, has been honored as a 2010 P10NEER for being an individual who “champions change and innovation in the M2M (machine-to-machine) technology marketplace.”

M2M PIONEERS are selected from different sectors, and though they are from different fields pursuing various interests, ‘their drive to succeed and vision for achievement couldn’t be more comparable. Looking forward, the task at hand for these individuals is to continue forging new ground in the face of a changing marketplace. As new markets open up and customer segments expand, the opportunities become vast, as do the challenges. But what makes these individuals so unique to begin with is their ability to push forward and forge new ground in the face of adversity.’

For Growney, founding one of the first mobile Internet device companies was ‘based around connecting the unconnected’ for ease and convenience in consumer’s lives. By connecting vertical devices to the Internet, exciting changes arise for standard consumer devices. For example, the company’s first product, Vizit, is one of the world’s first two-way photo frames. To allow someone to receive a photo almost immediately over the cellular network was only part of the excitement; but, being able to reply to a friend’s photo by simply touching the frame’s display transforms the device into something truly interactive. Now communication can continue from the frame as you then forward photos on from your daughter to your brother. Growney says, ‘We didn’t want somebody to have to leave the frame to go to a PC just to send a photo; we let them send it right from the frame…what we’ve done is connect the analog version of sharing, our physical frames, with the online richness of being able to basically deliver photos or other digital images within minutes covering thousands of miles very seamlessly.’

Vizit is the first two-way photo sharing frame with enhanced interaction. As photos arrive on the frame within minutes from a friend’s email or MMS, the Vizit user can then reply directly from the frame’s touchscreen or share that photo onto other friends or family members, continuing the cycle of communication. In addition, each Vizit’s photo account on VizitMe.com allows for the remote and secure management of the frame.

Isabella Products’ Growney is being honored this evening in Chicago for the 2010 P10NEERs presented by Connected World magazine.

About Isabella Products, Inc.
Isabella Products, Inc. is a revolutionary new product company focused on developing innovative solutions for emerging consumer needs. With its initial product, Vizit™, Isabella enables consumers to interact with the billions of unshared images found within camera phones, PCs and the Internet by combining a state-of-the-art touch-screen display with wireless network capabilities. Isabella Products is led by a world-class management team with deep experience in the consumer electronics industry. For more information, please visit www.isabellaproducts.com.

Isabella Products Media Contact
Kalindi Multani
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications
Kalindi.Multani@Fleishman.com
1-312-932-2806

About Connected World Magazine
Connected World magazine is the advisor to professionals who are making decisions about connectivity, innovation, technology, and collaboration. This is a shift in business to a networked, collaborative exchange of M2M communications, goods, and services. Connected World seeks to maintain a consistent authorial voice that covers everything a reader needs to know when it comes to innovation. It also seeks to be informative, yet fun for the inspired, driven, and the influential. www.connectedworldmag.com

New Mobile Internet Device and Service Platform to Power Digital Signage Network

Concord, MA, June 9, 2010 —Nu Graphics, a full service print innovations company, and Isabella Products, a mobile Internet device and services company based in Concord, Massachusetts, announced today an agreement that will enable Nu Graphics to become the first commercial reseller of Vizit™ for the digital signage and advertising management marketplace. Isabella Products’ Vizit is a new mobile Internet device that allows users to deliver digital content seamlessly over its VizitMe.com content management platform via the cellular network.

Vizit’s cellular connectivity allows businesses to send targeted advertising content to stores across the nation by simply using VizitMe.com to deliver context-specific content on each display. The simplicity and interactivity of VizitMe.com allows content to be dynamically updated to a specific business, promotion, and/or market at a moment’s notice. Field updates no longer need to be made to displays due to the cellular connectivity, which allows the immediate and remote upload of any new content.

Nu Graphics digital signage solution will include Design, Delivery, and Management of custom advertisements, promotions, coupons, and syndicated content. At a fraction of the cost of traditional print or digital signage, Nu Graphics is offering the ability to have such content dynamically accessible and targeted through the Vizit display network.

The display from Nu Graphics will be branded the “Nu View,” which will be one of the first cost effective mobile solutions for the delivery of digital signage into Retail, POP, POS, and personalized display markets. This creates an additional platform for Advertisers to more effectively reach consumers with real time, relevant messaging, brand control, and message management.

Nu View will offer customers an unparallel number of “viewing impressions” that can be delivered to consumers with a low overhead cost. No IT infrastructure is required to deploy or support a Nu View solution, and it can be up and running immediately after purchase and activation of the displays. Nu Graphics also expects to eventually support Motion Graphics on the display.

The cost of Nu View is one of the most effective implementations of digital signage that has come to market. As Kevin Ruttan, a senior executive for Nu Graphics, underscores, “This is a game changing technology for the Digital Signage Industry.”

Wayne Moda, CEO of Nu Graphics, also believes that Nu View is “A real-time display that is nomadic for the QSR and retail industries that is also cost effective. Vizit becoming a digital display for advertising is a momentous first, especially in delivering new ads on a store-by-store or regional basis and offering remote management of the display.”

“Our partnership with Nu Graphics brings an innovative dimension to advertising and digital signage with our compelling mobile technology solution”, says Matthew I. Growney, Founder & CEO of Isabella Products. “We believe that enterprises looking to extend their branding and advertising reach into their respective markets will definitely see enormous benefit from using the Nu View-Vizit and the VizitMe solution.”

The overall design of the Vizit display has an interactive appeal. Crowned the winner of the Best Embedded Consumer Mobile Device at Mobile World Congress in February, Vizit has been sold mainly as a consumer device through VizitMe.com and Amazon.com. Rapidly growing in usage, Vizit currently enables people to send and receive digital photos or images over the cellular network and features an easy-to-use interface, real time photo sharing, a full-touch interactive display and remote photo management from VizitMe.com. Vizit’s ultra-thin display is wall-mountable and available in charcoal with a black accent or silver with a white accent. Vizit measures 10.9” wide x 7.4” high x .65” deep. To learn more about Vizit, please go to a href=”http://www.vizitme.com”>VizitMe.com.

About NU Graphics Etc., Inc.
Nu Graphics is a full service cross media solutions provider to the graphic communication and print industry. The company has a tradition of implementing technologies that are ground breaking and customer focused. Nu Graphics provides a wide range of innovative solutions to its customer base. For more information, please visit Nu Graphics.

Nu Graphics Media Contact
Kevin Ruttan
Nu Graphics Etc., Inc.
kruttan@nugraphics.com
1-781-938-6164

About Isabella Products, Inc.
Isabella Products is a revolutionary new product company focused on developing innovative solutions for emerging consumer needs. With its initial product, Vizit™, Isabella enables consumers to interact with the billions of unshared images found within camera phones, PCs and the Internet by combining a state-of-the-art touch-screen display with wireless network capabilities. Isabella Products is led by a world-class management team with deep experience in the consumer electronics industry. For more information, please visit Isabella Products.

Isabella Products Media Contact
Kalindi Multani
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications
Kalindi.Multani@Fleishman.com
1-312-932-2806

Dan Williams to lead product design and strategic partnerships for Isabella’s product portfolio

Concord, MA, May 18, 2010 — Isabella Products, a revolutionary new product company focused on developing innovative solutions for emerging consumer needs, announced the appointment of Dan Williams as Vice President of Product Development. In this role, Williams will lead an aggressive and innovative product strategy in creating and designing new products and services utilizing the VizitMe.com platform and Isabella Products’ mobile Internet device technology. Additionally, Williams will also drive strategic partnerships and licensing of Isabella’s proprietary technology.

About his new role, Dan Williams shares, “Having been at the forefront of first and second generation consumer wireless mobile devices during my career, I am extremely excited to be joining a company offering the first generation of mobile Internet devices to be available in the marketplace. The original mobile phone adage of ‘calling people not just places’ has been extended beyond voice and data to shared personal experiences. Our platform intends to offer that capability and continuity to our customers.”

Williams is a distinguished member of the mobile and design communities and will provide Isabella with significant product development capabilities and resources for successive product plans. Williams was most recently the Vice President of Product Development at KONARKA. Prior to managing the Boston office of Chicago-based design and engineering consultancy Product Development Technologies, Inc., Williams served as Vice President of Design at Reebok where he introduced user experience design processes, combining design and business development practices focused on unmet market needs and emerging opportunities and technologies.

“We are extremely pleased that Dan will be leading product development activities for Isabella Products”, says Matthew I. Growney, Founder & CEO. “Dan’s significant experience in designing some of the industry’s most successful mobile devices and user experiences will only strengthen our product portfolio over the next year.”

Williams previously spent 17 years with Motorola in design leadership positions, including design director for mobile devices as well as heading Motorola’s Advanced Concepts Lab in Boston. Williams holds 49 design and utility patents related to computer, medical device and wireless communication equipment and has won numerous design awards. He is an affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab and has lectured at MIT, the Harvard School of Business and Harvard Graduate School of Design.

About Isabella Products, Inc.
About Isabella Products, Inc.
Isabella Products, Inc. is a revolutionary new product company focused on developing innovative solutions for emerging consumer needs. With its initial product, Vizit™, Isabella enables consumers to interact with the billions of unshared images found within camera phones, PCs and the Internet by combining a state-of-the-art touch-screen display with wireless network capabilities. Isabella Products is led by a world-class management team with deep experience in the consumer electronics industry. For more information, please visit www.isabellaproducts.com.

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Media Contact
Kalindi Multani
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications
Kalindi.Multani@Fleishman.com
1-312-932-2806

Solidifies Leadership in Wirelessly Connecting eReaders, Netbooks, Personal Navigation Devices, Other Consumer Electronics

DALLAS, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AT&T*, which offers the nation’s most advanced mobile broadband experience, announced today that through 2009, it has certified more than 370 wireless specialty consumer and machine-to-machine devices – such as eReaders, netbooks, digital photo frames, personal navigation devices, and home security monitoring and smart grid devices – for use on its mobile broadband network.

Consumers and business customers rely on AT&T’s wireless network to access a range of new, innovative solutions to make their lives and workplaces more efficient and productive. In addition to consumer electronics devices, or emerging devices, these solutions include rugged handsets and laptops, healthcare tracking tools, and meter-reading, vending machine, and home detention devices, among multiple devices designed to support the needs of a broad range of M2M solutions for enterprises.

Since forming a dedicated organization to focus on wirelessly connecting new categories of emerging devices in late 2008, AT&T has emerged as the clear industry leader in one of the wireless industry’s fastest growing areas.

“AT&T’s network has been leading the nation in smartphone mobile broadband usage for close to two years. As a result, today we offer the nation’s most advanced mobile broadband experience, with twice as many smartphone customers choosing us and leading consumer electronics companies naming us as their network of choice for emerging devices,” said Glenn Lurie, president of emerging devices, resale and partnerships.

“AT&T offers advantages our U.S. competitors cannot: the nation’s fastest 3G network, the GSM world standard for wireless technology – which allows customers to use their wireless devices for voice in 220 countries and data services in more than 190 countries through roaming agreements – and the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network,” said Lurie. “Plus we’ll be able to offer customers even faster speeds in 2010 and 2011 in advance of 4G networks and devices being widely available, setting us further apart from the competition as the mobile broadband leader.”

Today, AT&T is supporting or has announced plans to support devices in many of the major emerging device categories:

•eReaders: AT&T provides the mobile broadband connection for top selling eReaders, including the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes & Noble nook. AT&T has signed agreements to connect the Plastic Logic QUE™ proReader and Interead’s COOL-ER 3G, both expected to launch in the coming months.
•Netbooks: AT&T provides embedded wireless connectivity for netbooks and laptops from all major computing device manufacturers, including Acer, Dell, Lenovo, and Samsung, among others, all available today through either AT&T’s company owned retail locations, att.com, or leading national retailers.
•Personal Navigation Devices: AT&T provides the network connection to the only wirelessly connected, dedicated personal navigation devices in the market, the Garmin nuvi® 1690 and the TomTom XL 340S LIVE, both featuring local search and fuel price services, among other content.
•Digital Photo Frames: AT&T will provide the wireless connection for two digital photo frames – Isabella’s VIZIT and the Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame – both expected to be in market in the first quarter of 2010.
•Telematics Devices: AT&T currently enables telematics service for a major luxury automotive OEM and has plans to expand to other automakers.

“We are committed to collaborating with consumer electronics manufacturers and all other companies in the emerging devices ecosystem to help drive innovation and growth in what is perhaps the most exciting area in the wireless industry today,” said Lurie. “We’ve developed the infrastructure to help electronic manufacturers quickly bring their products to market, creating new business models, offering new pricing structures for customers who purchase emerging devices, and continually expanding our mobile network capabilities to support the long-term growth of these devices.”

Investments in Spurring Emerging Device Growth

Last year, AT&T teamed with Jasper Wireless to build a platform to connect and support a variety of emerging consumer electronic and business devices on AT&T’s wireless network. The proprietary platform – AT&T Control Center, powered by Jasper Wireless – accelerates market entry for connected devices while offering unique features such as instant activation and flexible rate plans that benefit device manufacturers and end-user customers, including consumers, small businesses and enterprises. In fact, by integrating this platform with its network, AT&T can enable manufacturers to go from concept to market in as little as six months – and to build a high-quality customer experience so most devices are already activated and ready to go “out-of-the-box.”

AT&T also opened a dedicated emerging device certification lab in Austin in September to serve as the hub for testing network compatibility, data performance and audio quality for a broad range of non-traditional, wirelessly-enabled devices The lab also manages field tests for these devices in markets across the country.

This month, AT&T launched a new web site – www.att.com/edo — which is the “front door” into its Emerging Devices Organization for consumer electronics and next-generation device manufacturers. The site includes the AT&T M2M Developer Kit, a Device Certification On-Boarding Tool, and information to help prospective business allies determine the right business model, network options, product specifications, and potential customer care and distribution solutions

About AT&T

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation’s fastest 3G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. AT&T offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse(SM) and AT&T | DIRECTV(SM) brands. The company’s suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T’s Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations are known for their leadership in directory publishing and advertising sales. In 2009, AT&T again ranked No. 1 in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE® magazine’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies.

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Vizit Named One of Top Tech Devices in Home Entertainment Category

Concord, Mass., November 12, 2009 – Isabella Products, a new Concord, MA-based consumer electronics company, announced today that Vizit has been chosen to receive a 2009 Best of What’s New Award from Popular Science in the Home Entertainment category.  Vizit is the first two-way, touch screen photo frame delivering images over the AT&T mobile network from anywhere in the world via email or MMS.  

Vizit leverages a unique combination of touch-screen technology, innovative software and cellular connectivity to create a rich, yet effortless, photo sharing experience.  Simply send a photo from your camera phone, computer or favorite photo sharing website to your Vizit frame and these photos will display within moments!  All photos sent to Vizit are automatically archived on a secure website, www.VizitMe.com , where Vizit owners can access, edit, delete and organize the photos on their frame.  Vizit features an intuitive full-touch display, real time photo sharing and remote photo management. With just a touch of the screen, users can share, reply to, forward, favorite, and delete any image on the frame. 

Each year, the editors of Popular Science review thousands of products in search of the top 100 tech innovations of the year, breakthrough products and technologies that represent a significant leap in their categories.  Best of What’s New awards are presented to 100 new products and technologies in 11 categories: Automotive, Aviation & Space, Computing, Engineering, Gadgets, Green Technology, Home Entertainment, Security, Home Technology, Health and Recreation. All of the winners will be featured in the December special issue of Popular Science, which is on newsstands now.

“For 22 years, Popular Science has honored the innovations that surprise and amaze us − those that make a positive impact on our world today and challenge our views of what’s possible in the future,” said Mark Jannot, Editor-in-Chief of Popular Science. “The Best of What’s New Award is the magazine’s top honor, and the 100 winners − chosen from among thousands of entrants − represent the highest level of achievement in their fields.”

As a two-way device, Vizit allows users to both receive and send pictures to authorized photo senders, cultivating a private community of friends and family who are sharing their lives all at the same time.  With Vizit, parents can take a picture of their child’s first day of school in Boston from their camera phone, for example, and send it instantaneously to a Vizit frame sitting next to the proud grandparents in a San Francisco living room.  Images are delivered immediately to the Vizit frame, without any action required from the recipient.  When photos arrive on the frame, grandparents can effortlessly forward or send replies along to other friends and family directly from the frame. 

“The two-way capabilities of Vizit represent an evolution of the digital photo frame experience from  devices that have traditionally been used as simply a view-only option,” said Matthew I. Growney, Founder and CEO of Isabella Products. “The AT&T mobile network coverage will prove tremendously beneficial for Vizit and offer users an unparalleled opportunity for photo sharing and interaction.”

With an ultra-thin display, Vizit is wall mountable and is available in gunmetal with black or rosewood accents, and silver with white or teak accents measuring 10.9” wide x 7.4” high x .65” deep. The suggested retail price is $279.99, and requires a monthly or annual photo plan. Vizit will be available in early 2010 at www.VizitMe.com and other online retailers.

About Isabella Products, Inc.

Isabella Products, Inc. is a revolutionary new product company focused on developing innovative solutions for emerging consumer needs. With its initial product, Vizit™, Isabella enables consumers to interact with the billions of unshared images found within camera phones, PCs and the Internet by combining a state-of-the-art touch-screen display with wireless network capabilities. Vizit is the first two-way communication device using the mobile network for photo sharing, resulting in a truly interactive experience. Isabella Products is led by a world-class management team with deep experience in the consumer electronics industry. For more information, please visit www.isabellaproducts.com.

About Popular Science

Founded in 1872, Popular Science (www.popsci.com) is the world’s largest science and technology magazine, with a circulation of 1.3 million and 7.1 million readers. Each month, Popular Science delivers “The Future Now,” reporting on the intersection of science and everyday life with an eye toward what’s new and why it matters. Popular Science is published by the Bonnier Corporation (www.bonniercorp.com), one of the largest consumer publishing groups in America and the leading media company serving passionate, highly engaged audiences through more than 40 special-interest magazines and related multimedia projects and events.

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